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Amazon has already shipped the calendar to me from Pennsylvania to California via UPS Ground. But alas, I won't actually have it in my hands until late next week.
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quote:Originally posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov: ...for some reason they seem to be obsessed with that Chaffe-"thing" (I refuse to call it a shuttle). I think the '01 or '02 calendar even had a whole page dedicated to it. And is/wasn't it on this years calendar, too (I'm too lazy to check that out at the moment). It seems there has been more Chaffee than Defiant and DS9 combined.
I think this can be attributed to the fact that these are the most readily-accessible (and perhaps most detailed) CGI models from the show.
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim:
quote:Originally posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov: ...for some reason they seem to be obsessed with that Chaffe-"thing" (I refuse to call it a shuttle). I think the '01 or '02 calendar even had a whole page dedicated to it. And is/wasn't it on this years calendar, too (I'm too lazy to check that out at the moment). It seems there has been more Chaffee than Defiant and DS9 combined.
I think this can be attributed to the fact that these are the most readily-accessible (and perhaps most detailed) CGI models from the show.
Especially DS9 has hundrets of interesting possibilities for images. They have a good Defiant, they obviously have a good DS9, they have a very good Runabout, lots of Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, Breen, Dominion... why bother with a shuttle we've only seen for a minute on the whole show - even if it is high-quality?
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Didn't Mojo say there were no CGIs of DS9? I doubt Paramount would pay for one to be made just for a calendar.
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I've bought the calendar today here in Columbus. The image of the NCC 1701-J isn's as sharp as the others, but it is still better than any image seen on the web so far.
That strange thingamob at the front of the saucer is actually the deflector dish. If you ignore the rest of the saucer, the part in the middle looks like a cross between a manta ray and a hammerhead shark.
What I didn't like was the fact that the Enterprise-B in the centrefold image is the standard Excelsior model and not the Generations version. Doesn't really make sense. Ok, so I know they haven't got a CGI model of the modified Excelsior, but then they should have left it out altogether.
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Making the "B" an stock Excelsior is dumb, yes. I cant decide if it's extreme laziness or extreme editorial nearsightedness though....
While I like the Chaffe, I'd prefer almost any other ship from DS9: A nice shot of a Jemmie Cruiser or battleship would have been ideal.
I'd be happy never to see another KBOP (or it's variants) ever again, regardless of how well textured they are.
Very happy to see the Tholians! I'm getting a model from this refrence.
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I get the feeling that when CGI artists are fired, many files are "lost". ....building the Norway was a challenge for that exact reason- there exists no definitive front or ventral views.
I can never get over their losing huge studio models that cost tens of thousands of dollars each....makes losing a file seem trivial by comparison.
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That's something I can't understand either. Like when they "lost" the Ent-D model and found it years later in a restaurant. I mean, hey, these things are HUGE, you can't imagine someone just saying "Ooops, I think I lost that somewhere, must have slipped out of my pocket."
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^^^^
As a fan of both Farscape and Star Wars, I have learned the true meaning of the word "patience".
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